Paul Hubschmid

Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), a British Agent, is sent to East Berlin to receive a Communist defector, but the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated.

A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.

Alexandra Borowski, in her mid-twenties, a high-paid, top-notch model, is one of those jet-set girls who fly to New York today, Bermuda tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow to Rome. She never stays in a hotel for long, never for a long time with a man. Having just arrived in Berlin, numerous young men are already trying to find Alexandra’s favor: the dubious Yugoslav local owner Bogdan, a young industrialist and the Italian photographer Timo. Evening invitations, theater visits, stroll through the night scene and parties are replacing each other.